Van Kley, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 303-75
NB: Typically, at the end of the introduction to Chapter 6 (p. 305), Van Kley indicates the purpose of the chapter. To review the political events that form this chapter's background consult Collins, The State in Early Modern France, 257-67.
You need to know the meaning / significance of: May edicits, Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Mirabeau, absolute veto, suspensive veto, Armand-Gaston Camus, Abbé Henri Grégoire, L'ecclésiastique citoyen, portion congrue
1. Why could 13 June or 23 June 1789 be considered the final day of the Old Regime?
2. What topics did the pamphlets of the patriots address? How did the patriots contribute to revolutionary ideology? What were the limitations that prevented patriot discourse from becoming revolutionary ideology?
3. Who represented the monarchy (or ministry) in responding to the patriots' pamphlets? What was the heritage of the response? How did the response contribute to revolutionary ideology?
4. What was the Sieyèsian synthesis? Why is it significant? Is this the same as or similar to the "national synthesis" (p. 334)?
5. What positions did the Third Estate (National Assembly) and its pamphleteers take in 1789?
6. In what ways did the Jansenists agree and disagree with the National Assembly? With what did Jansenist thought preoccupy itself at the end of the Old Regime? How did it come close to the Enlightenment?
7. Who were the clergy in the crossfire? Who was doing the firing? Did Jansenism have a role to play?
8. Van Kley holds that "some if not all of the content of the Civil Constitution was the culmination of a century of Jansenist efforts at ecclesiastical reform" (p. 336). How was this the case? How did Jansenism contribute to the radical restructuring of the church when Jansenists would never have reformed the church in the way that the National Assembly actually did?
9. What were the ideas associated with nascent religious counter-revolution?
10. How do Quinet and Van Kley agree and disagree in their analysis of the French Revolution? Are you persuaded by Van Kley's interpretation?
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